Healthy love

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Single, dating or married, this Valentine’s day decide to fall in love with your body. Stay away from the sugar-filled food like cookies, cakes and sweets and instead gift your valentine and yourself a day of eating yummy and healthy Valentine’s Day themed food.

This February 14th, treat your valentine, be it a partner, your parents, your family or just yourself with not only with love but with good food for the mind, body and soul

Single, dating or married, this Valentine’s day decide to fall in love with your body. Stay away from the sugar-filled food like cookies, cakes and sweets and instead gift your valentine and yourself a day of eating yummy and healthy Valentine’s Day themed food.

These will not only help you celebrate the day of love but also help you celebrate your body as you will not pile on the unwanted calories but only the love from your loved ones.

You can even gift spa coupons, aromatic oils or even movie tickets although be careful of the kind of food you eat during the movie.

You could even go for a nice long walk instead of going for a drive or sit by the water or in the park instead of going for a movie.

When deciding what to eat or gift your Valentine, let this table guide you:

STRAWBERRY AND BANANA SMOOTHIE
Ingredients
Strawberries 6
Large banana 1
Ice cubes 1/4 cup

Method

  • Chop the strawberries into tiny squares
  • Chop the bananas into tiny pieces.
  • Crush the ice cubes in a blender.
  • Add the chopped strawberries and chopped bananas to the crushed ice cubes in the blender.
  • Blend well.
  • Serve chilled.
CHOOSE THIS… …OVER THIS
Dark Chocolate Milk Chocolate
Dry fruits Mithai
Fresh strawberries Marshmallows
Granola bars Chocolate bars
Fruit smoothie Milkshake
Fruit sorbet Ice Lolly
Flavoured yoghurt Ice cream
Cappuccino Frappuccino
Virgin Mary/ Lemon Soda/ Unsweetened Ice Tea Sweetened Mocktail
Coconut Water Aerated Drinks
Fruit Platter Fruit Cream
Whole wheat pancakes Sweetened Crepes
Whole wheat waffles with maple syrup or honey Normal waffles with ice cream
Greek Salad Waldorf Salad
Cheese Platter Cheese Cigars
Vegetable Sandwich Burger
Pizza Cream Cheese Pasta
Jacket Potatoes Potato Wedges
Zoodles Noodles
Salted popcorn Caramel popcorn
Olives Chips
Flavoured nuts Gems Chocolate / MnMs

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